Biology:Chinese flying frog
Chinese flying frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Rhacophoridae |
Genus: | Zhangixalus |
Species: | Z. dennysi
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Binomial name | |
Zhangixalus dennysi (Blanford, 1881)
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The Chinese flying frog or Chinese gliding frog (Zhangixalus dennysi) is a species of tree frog in the family Rhacophoridae found in China, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam. It is also known as Blanford's whipping frog, large treefrog, and Denny's whipping frog.[2]
It is up to 10 cm (3.9 in) long. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals, and ditches. This frog has been observed between 200 and 1500 meters above sea level.[3][4]
Females lay eggs in foam nests attached to branches and grasses hanging over water. They create nests by beating a frothy secretion into foam with their hind legs.
It is considered Least Concern by the IUCN.
References
- ↑ Peter Paul van Dijk, Nguyen Quang Truong, Bryan Stuart, Michael Wai Neng Lau, Geng Baorong, Gu Huiqing, Yang Datong (2004). "Zhangixalus dennysi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58987A11855235. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58987A11855235.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58987/11855235. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ Rhacophorus dennysi, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R.. "Zhangixalus dennysi (Blanford, 1881)". American Museum of Natural History, New York. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Zhangixalus/Zhangixalus-dennysi.
- ↑ "Zhangixalus dennysi (Blanford, 1881)". University of California, Berkeley. https://amphibiaweb.org/species/4472.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2707104 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese flying frog.
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